Improvement in apparatus for baking altar bread or wafers



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P. H. HORAN. A

APPARATUS FOR BAKING ALTAR. BREAD 0R WAF-ERS.

Wa'trwaa as 4 5m a, fimefl UNITED. STATEs P TENT OFFICE.

'PATBIOK H. HORAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HORAN BROTHERS,OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUSFORZBAKING ALTAR BREAD OR WAFERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 184,623, dated November21,1876; application filed v October,9, 1876. v

.To all whom it may vconcern:

Be it known that I, PATRICKH. HORAN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State'of Massach usetts,have invented certain Improvements inApparatus for Baking Altar Bread or Wafers, of which the following is aspecification: a

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a perspective view of. my invention, showing thehinged plate in position for being heated. Fig. 2 represents alongitudinal vertical central section of the same. Fig. 3 represents asimilar section, showing the apparatus adjusted for baking.

Similar letters, of reference. refer to like parts.

This invention relates to apparatus for form,- ing and baking the altarbread or wafers used for sacramental purposes in Catholic churches. Itis desirable that these wafers should be very white and thin, the usualthickness not exceeding that of ordinary bristol-board.

The object of the inventionis to produce an apparatus for convenientlyand expeditiously forming and baking wafers having the desired qualitiesof thinness and whiteness; and to.

this end it consists, mainly, in an apparatus combining a stationaryhorizontal plate, on which the batter to be baked is spread, a hingedplate, adapted to be first heated and then turned so as to press uponthe stationary plate and crowd the batter thereon into a thin sheet, andhold it during the baking operation, and a movable heater, preferably agasstove, adapted to heat the hinged and the stationary plate insuccession, the plates being located on a suitable stationary support.The invention also consists in certain details of construction, wherebythe movable parts of the apparatus are operated, and also in theconstruction ofthe gas-stove or heater, all of which 1 will nowproceedto describe.

In the drawings, A represents the stationary horizontal plate, which islocated on the top of a stationarycasing or support, B, and covers abouthalf of said casing. U represents the hinged plate, which is providedwith trunnions working in bearing-blocks O on thecasing B, and isadapted, when turned in one direction, to cover the other half of thecasing, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and when turned in the oppositedirection to rest upon and cover the upper surface of the plate A, asshown in Fig. 3. The plate 0' is provided with two rounded lugs, 0which, when the plate is turned over upon the plate A, project upwardly,and form bearings for the horizontal part of a bifurcated lever,'"E, thelugs being located near opposite edges of the plate. The lever E ispivoted to the sides of the casing,

and when turned upwardly presses down upon the lugs-0. and thus pressesand holds the plate 0 against the plate A. The lever E is preferablyprovided with a dog or pawl, E,

ver, F, pivoted to the side of the casing B,

and a crank, G, attached to the plate 0, the crank G working in a slotin one arm of the lever F, while the; other. arm is provided with asuitable handle. By a movement of the lever F the plate C may be turnedas desired.

The bearing-blocks O in which the trunnions of the plate 0 work, arepreferably made vertically adjustable, so as to adapt the plate 0 to beadjusted vertically to a slight degree, and thus regulate the thicknessof the wafers. This adjustment is effected iuthe present case byscrewing the blocks 0 to shelves 0 through which project upwardly screws0, the .latter forming adjustable bearings for the blocks. By looseningthe screws which attach the blocks to the shelves, and adjusting thescrews,

0 upwardly, the blocks 0 will be raised.

The proximate surfaces of the plates A G are preferably polished, andmay, if desired, be provided With symbols in intaglt'o, to be impartedto the wafers.

D represents the movable heater, which is, by preference, a smallgas-stove or burner, supported on a truck, Dfland provided With agas-pipe, D which projects through a hole in the casing B, and isconnected with a flexible gastube. D The heater, in

the present case, is composed of a vertical tube, B, into which thegas-pipe D enters.

The tube D communicates with a chamber,-

suri'aceof the chamber, which is so high as to.

be in close proximity to the plates A U. The heater is adapted to bemoved back and forth in the 'casing B,so as to heat either of theplatesAO, and its movement is preferably efl'ected by means of acompound lever, com-.

posed of an arm, H, pivoted to the casing,

'and projecting horizontally through the side thereof, and a crank, H,jointed to the arm H and to the truck'D l'noperating the apparatus, theplate 0 is turned away from the plate A, and over the end of the casing,and the heater is moved under it,as shown in Fig. 2, until the plate 0is it sufficiently heated. Meanwhilea quantity of batter is poured ontothe plateA, and when the plate 0 is heated, it is turned over onto theplate Aand pressed down, and held by the lever E, as shown in Fig. 3,thus crowding the batter into a thin sheet. At the same time the heateris moved along under the plate thin white wafers can be conveniently andrapidly made without being burned or browned, ordinary care beingexercised.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an apparatus for combination of astationary plate, a pivoted plate adapted to be heated, and subsequentlypressed against the stationary plate, and a a movable heater adapted toheat the pivoted and the stationary plate successively, said platesbeinglocated on a suitable stationary support, as set forth.

2. The casing B, provided with the stationary plate A, thehinged plate(3, andthe movable heater D, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The pivoted plate 0, having lugs combined with the bi'furcatedileverE, as set forth.

4. The bifurcated lever E, having friction- .rollers E combined with theplate G, having lugs 0 as set forth. v a i a.

5. The bifurcated lever E, having the dog orpawl E ,combined with theplate 0, having lugs G and notchesE, as set forth; I 6. The pivotedplate 0, having vertically adjustable bearings, combined with thestationary plate A, as set forth. j 7 The pivoted plate 0, having thecrankvvG, combined with the bell-crank lever F,as set forth. t t

8. The heater composed of the vertical tube D and perforated chamber Dlocated on the truck D and provided with flexible gas-com nections, asset forth.

9. The compound PATRICK H. HORAN.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH J. HORAN, G. F. BRowN.

baking wafers, the

lever H H, combined a with the truck D and casing B, as set forth.

